NYC Premiere of the Viola d’amore concerto

Soloist Edmundo Ramirez brought a graceful but plaintive, sometimes
vividly aching edge and an acerbic tone to the night’s most stunning
work, Anna Veismane‘s
Concerto for Viola d’Amore. A tone poem, more or less, its tectonic
sheets shifted slowly and methodically and grew more haunting as it went
on, building a surreal, dangerously otherworldly mood with close
harmonies from the strings.